Compensation of Nonlinear Fibre Impairments in Coherent Systems Employing Spectrally Efficient Modulation Formats. - Danish Rafique; Jian Zhao 038; Andrew D. Ellis (IEICE Trans. Commun., 2011)

Mitigation of filtering cascade penalties using spectral shaping in optical nodes. - Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; Erik De Man; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2014)

FEC overhead optimization for long-haul transmission of PM-16QAM based 400Gb/s super-channel. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; E. de Man; Maxim Kuschnerov; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2014)

Long-haul terabit transmission (2272km) employing digitally pre-distorted quad-carrier PM-16QAM super-channel. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; Erik De Man; Maxim Kuschnerov; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2014)

On the next generation bandwidth variable transponders for future flexible optical systems. - Antonio Napoli; Markus Nölle; Danish Rafique; Johannes Karl Fischer; Bernhard Spinnler; Talha Rahman; Mahdi M. Mezghanni; Marc Bohn (EuCNC, 2014)

Adaptive digital back-propagation for optical communication systems. - Chien-Yu Lin; Antonio Napoli; Bernhard Spinnler; Vincent Sleiffer; Danish Rafique; Maxim Kuschnerov; Marc Bohn; Bernhard Schmauss (OFC, 2014)

Performance dependence of single-carrier digital back-propagation on fiber types and data rates. - Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Maxim Kuschnerov; Markus Noelle; Marc Bohn (OFC, 2014)

FEC overhead and fiber nonlinearity mitigation: Performance and power consumption tradeoffs. - Danish Rafique; Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Stefano Calabrò; Bernhard Spinnler (OFC, 2014)

Dynamics of intra super-channel fiber nonlinearity compensation in flex-grid optical networks. - Danish Rafique; Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Bernhard Spinnler (OFC, 2014)

Digital Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation: Toward 1-Tb/s transport. - Liang B. Du; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; Bernhard Spinnler; Andrew D. Ellis; Maxim Kuschnerov; Arthur James Lowery (IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2014)

First demonstration of multi-vendor and multi-domain EON with S-BVT and control interoperability over Pan-European testbed. - Óscar González de Dios; Ramon Casellas; Francesco Paolucci; Antonio Napoli; Lluis Gifre; S. Annoni; Sergio Belotti; Uwe Feiste; Danish Rafique; Marc Bohn; Sébastien Bigo; Arnaud Dupas; et al. (ECOC, 2015)

32 × 1Tb/s C-band transmission over 1000km employing three subcarriers PM-64QAM for regional applications. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Antonio Napoli; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2015)

IDEALIST data plane solutions for elastic optical networks. - Patricia Layec; Annachiara Dupas; Markus Nölle; Johannes Karl Fischer; Colja Schubert; Josep M. Fabrega; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; Nicola Sambo; Gianluca Meloni; Francesco Fresi; Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; et al. (EuCNC, 2015)

Sliceable bandwidth variable transponder: The IDEALIST vision. - Emilio Riccardi; Annachiara Pagano; Emilio Hugues-Salas; Georgios Zervas; Dimitra Simeonidou; Marc Bohn; Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; Antonio D'Errico; Nicola Sambo; Piero Castoldi; Talha Rahman; et al. (EuCNC, 2015)

Long-haul WDM transmission of 1 Tb/s superchannel. - Talha Rahman; Adriana Lobato; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Antonius M. J. Koonen; Huug de Waardt (ICTON, 2015)

Novel DAC digital pre-emphasis algorithm for next-generation flexible optical transponders. - Antonio Napoli; Mahdi M. Mezghanni; Danish Rafique; Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer; Talha Rahman; Bernhard Spinnler; Stefano Calabrò; Marc Bohn (OFC, 2015)

Novel digital pre-distortion techniques for low-extinction ratio Mach-Zehnder modulators. - Antonio Napoli; Mahdi M. Mezghanni; Danish Rafique; Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn (OFC, 2015)

Fiber nonlinearity compensation: Practical use cases and complexity analysis. - Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler (OFC, 2015)

Next generation elastic optical networks: The vision of the European research project IDEALIST. - Antonio Napoli; Marc Bohn; Danish Rafique; Alexandros A. Stavdas; Nicola Sambo; Luca Potì; Markus Nölle; Johannes Karl Fischer; Emilio Riccardi; Annachiara Pagano; Andrea Di Giglio; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; et al. (IEEE Commun. Mag., 2015)

Next generation sliceable bandwidth variable transponders. - Nicola Sambo; Piero Castoldi; Antonio D'Errico; Emilio Riccardi; Annachiara Pagano; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; Josep M. Fabrega; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; Silvano Frigerio; Emilio Hugues-Salas; Georgios Zervas; et al. (IEEE Commun. Mag., 2015)

Adaptive digital pre-emphasis for high speed digital analogue converters. - Antonio Napoli; Stefano Calabrò; Danish Rafique; Robert Palmer; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn (OFC, 2016)

Multi-flex field trial over 762km of G.652 SSMF using programmable modulation formats up to 64QAM. - Danish Rafique; Talha Rahman; Bernhard Spinnler; Erwan Pincemin; Stefano Calabrò; Erik De Man; Uwe Feiste; Juraj Slovak; Antonio Napoli; Claude Le Bouëtté; Jérémie Jauffrit; Sylvain Bordais; et al. (OFC, 2016)

38.4Tb/s transmission of single-carrier serial line-rate 400Gb/s PM-64QAM over 328km for metro and data center interconnect applications. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn; Antonio Napoli; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (OFC, 2016)

Digital subcarrier multiplexed hybrid QAM for data-rate flexibility and ROADM filtering tolerance. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Antonio Napoli; Marc Bohn; Antonius M. J. Koonen; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (OFC, 2016)

Networking Aspects for Next-Generation Elastic Optical Interfaces. - Benoît Clouet; João Pedro 001; Nelson Costa; Maxim Kuschnerov; Anton Schex; Juraj Slovak; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli (JOCN, 2016)

On the Filter Narrowing Issues in Elastic Optical Networks. - Josep M. Fàbrega; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; L. Martín; Anna Chiado Piat; Emilio Riccardi; Diego Roccato; Nicola Sambo; Filippo Cugini; Luca Potì; Shuangyi Yan; Emilio Hugues-Salas; Dimitra Simeonidou; et al. (JOCN, 2016)

TSDN-Enabled Network Assurance: A Cognitive Fault Detection Architecture. - Danish Rafique; Thomas Szyrkowiec; Helmut Griesser; Achim Autenrieth; Jörg-Peter Elbers (ECOC, 2017)

Digital pre-emphasis based system design trade-offs for 64 Gbaud coherent data center interconnects. - Danish Rafique; Nicklas Eiselt; Helmut Griesser; Benjamin Wohlfeil; Michael Eiselt; Jörg-Peter Elbers (ICTON, 2017)

Enabling 64Gbaud coherent optical transceivers. - Danish Rafique; Helmut Griesser; Jörg-Peter Elbers (OFC, 2017)

First Demonstration of Fully Integrated Segmented Driver and MZM in 0.25-µm SiGe BiCMOS employing 112 Gb/s PAM4 over 60 km SSMF. - Benjamin Wohlfeil; Nicklas Eiselt; Pedro Rito; Annika Dochhan; Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor; Danish Rafique; Despoina Petousi; Iria Garcia Lopez; Stefan Lischke; Dietmar Kissinger; Lars Zimmermann; Michael Eiselt; et al. (ECOC, 2018)

Interplay of Pulse Shaping and Pre-Emphasis for High Symbol Rate Coherent Transmission Systems. - Danish Rafique (ICTON, 2018)

Machine Learning Based Optimal Modulation Format Prediction for Physical Layer Network Planning. - Danish Rafique (ICTON, 2018)

Improving Achievable Information Rates of 64-GBd PDM-64QAM by Nonlinear Transmitter Predistortion. - Robert Elschner; Robert Emmerich; Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst; Felix Frey; Pablo Wilke Berenguer; Johannes K. Fischer; Helmut Grießer; Danish Rafique; Jörg-Peter Elbers; Colja Schubert (OFC, 2018)

Analytics-Driven Fault Discovery and Diagnosis for Cognitive Root Cause Analysis. - Danish Rafique; Thomas Szyrkowiec; Achim Autenrieth; Jörg-Peter Elbers (OFC, 2018)

Modeling and Design Aspects of a Monolithically Integrated Optoelectronic Chip enabling 64Gbaud Operation. - Danish Rafique; Benjamin Wohlfeil; Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor; Helmut Griesser; Despoina Petousi; Pedro Rito; Iria Garcia Lopez; Lars Zimmermann; Michael Eiselt; Jörg-Peter Elbers (OFC, 2018)

Photonic Integrated Circuits for Data Center Interconnects. - Benjamin Wohlfeil; Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor; Annika Dochhan; Danish Rafique; Michael Eiselt; Jörg-Peter Elbers (PSC, 2018)

Machine Learning for Network Automation: Overview, Architecture, and Applications [Invited Tutorial]. - Danish Rafique; Luis Velasco 001 (JOCN, 2018)

Machine Learning Based Laser Failure Mode Detection. - Khouloud Abdelli; Danish Rafique; Stephan Pachnicke (ICTON, 2019)

64-GBd DP-Bipolar-8ASK Transmission Over 120 km SSMF Employing a Monolithically Integrated Driver and MZM in 0.25-μm SiGe BiCMOS Technology. - Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor; Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst; Benjamin Wohlfeil; Robert Elschner; Danish Rafique; Robert Emmerich; Annika Dochhan; Iria Garcia Lopez; Pedro Rito; Despoina Petousi; Dietmar Kissinger; Lars Zimmermann; et al. (OFC, 2019)

Fault Management Based on Machine Learning. - Luis Velasco; Danish Rafique (OFC, 2019)

Monitoring and Data Analytics for Optical Networking: Benefits, Architectures, and Use Cases. - Luis Velasco 001; Marc Ruiz 001; Filippo Cugini; Ramon Casellas; Anna Chiado Piat; O. Gonzlez; Andrew Lord; Antonio Napoli; Patricia Layec; Danish Rafique; Antonio D'Errico; Daniel King (IEEE Netw., 2019)

Lifetime Prediction of 1550 nm DFB Laser using Machine Learning Techniques. - Khouloud Abdelli; Danish Rafique; Helmut Grießer; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2020)

Exploring Channel Probing to Determine Coherent Optical Transponder Configurations in a Long-Haul Network. - Kaida Kaeval; Danish Rafique; Kamil Blawat; Klaus Grobe; Helmut Grießer; Jörg-Peter Elbers; Piotr Rydlichowski; Artur Binczewski; Marko Tikas (OFC, 2020)

HeCSON: Heuristic for Configuration Selection in Optical Network Planning. - Sai Kireet Patri; Achim Autenrieth; Danish Rafique; Jörg-Peter Elbers; Carmen Mas Machuca (OFC, 2020)

HeCSON: Heuristic for Configuration Selectionin Optical Network Planning. - Sai Kireet Patri; Achim Autenrieth; Danish Rafique; Jörg-Peter Elbers; Carmen Mas Machuca (CoRR, 2020)

Reliability Data for Laser Lifetime Prediction. - Khouloud Abdelli; Danish Rafique; Helmut Griesser; Stephan Pachnicke (IEEE DataPort, 2022)